A Guide to the Supreme Court's Review of the 2010 Health Care Reform Law

This brief examines the pending Supreme Court case challenging the 2010 Affordable Care Act, including the key constitutional questions issues and the parties' legal arguments.

How will the Affordable Care Act affect small businesses and their employees?

This fact sheet summarizes key provisions in the Affordable Care Act that may affect small businesses and their employees.  The fact sheet explains the law’s small business tax credits and the Small Business Health Options Program exchanges to be established in each state by 2014, both of which are designed to make it easier for small businesses to purchase insurance for their workers.

Kaiser Health Tracking Poll -- January 2012

The January Health Tracking Poll probes the public's views and expectations about the Supreme Court case on the health reform law and the public's knowledge and opinions of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's health care positions.

Establishing Health Insurance Exchanges: An Update on State Efforts

This issue brief examines states' progress in setting up the state-based health insurance exchanges through which millions of Americans are expected to purchase coverage under The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) beginning in 2014.

Pulling it Together: 2012: The ACA, and More

In his latest column, Kaiser Family Foundation President Drew Altman looks ahead at the wide range of health policy issues and marketplace changes that will be in play inside and outside the Beltway in 2012.

Kaiser Health Tracking Poll -- December 2011

The December Tracking Poll finds the recent dip in support of the health reform law has been fully reversed, and the concept of health exchanges has wide, bipartisan support.

Copy of Snapshots: Compensation for Workers with & without Access to Health Benefits at Work

This report analyzes the differences in payroll compensation at companies where health benefits are and are not offered. It finds that workers at companies that offer health benefits on average receive more than double the compensation of workers at companies that do. It is part of the online Snapshots: Health Care Costs series, written by Foundation staff.

Illustrating Health Reform: How Coverage Will Work

A new interactive feature from the Foundation, “Illustrating Health Reform: How Coverage Will Work,” clarifies how individuals and businesses in a variety of situations could be affected by health reform. Featuring the YouToons characters from the Foundation’s “Health Reform Hits Main Street” animated video, the new feature makes it easy to see how people’s health insurance coverage could change under reform.

Webcast: New CMS Estimates of State-by-State Health Expenditures

On Wednesday Dec. 7, 2011 the Kaiser Family Foundation held a live interactive webcast to discuss trends in state health care expenditures and the implications for national and state efforts to constrain health care costs.  The webcast examined new state-by-state estimates of public and private health spending from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

Pulling it Together: The Most Popular Provision in the ACA?

In his latest column, Kaiser Family Foundation President Drew Altman discusses the importance of a surprise finding in this month’s tracking poll – the most popular provision in the ACA is a requirement that health plans provide consumers with a short, easy to understand summary of their health insurance benefits and coverage.